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According to Wikipedia, Michael Adas is an American historian and currently the Abraham E. Voorhees Professor of History at Rutgers University. He specializes in the history of technology, the history of anticolonialism and in global history.

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Machines as the Measure of Men: Science, Technology, and Ideologies of Western Dominance (1990) (613)
Prophets of Rebellion: Millenarian Protest Movements against the European Colonial Order (1979) (154)
The Burma delta: economic development and social change on an Asian rice frontier, 1852-1941 (1975) (139)
From Avoidance to Confrontation: Peasant Protest in Precolonial and Colonial Southeast Asia (1981) (127)
The Science of Empire: Scientific Knowledge, Civilization, and Colonial Rule in India by Zaheer Baber (1997) (109)
Dominance by Design: Technological Imperatives and America's Civilizing Mission (2006) (95)
Contested Hegemony: The Great War and the Afro-Asian Assault on the Civilizing Mission Ideology (2004) (94)
From Settler Colony to Global Hegemon: Integrating the Exceptionalist Narrative of the American Experience into World History (2001) (86)
From footdragging to flight: The evasive history of peasant avoidance protest in south and South‐East Asia (1986) (54)
Islamic and European Expansion: The Forging of a Global Order. (1993) (46)
Civilizing Mission: Exact Sciences and French Overseas Expansion, 1830–1940 by Lewis Pyenson (1993) (42)
Colonialism and Science (1992) (40)
Immigrant Asians and the Economic Impact of European Imperialism: The Role of the South Indian Chettiars in British Burma (1974) (36)
Imperialism and Colonialism in Comparative Perspective (1998) (35)
Bookend: Machines as the Measure of Men (1990) (35)
Improving on the Civilising Mission? Assumptions of United States Exceptionalism in the Colonisation of the Philippines (1998) (29)
World Civilizations: The Global Experience (1992) (26)
Agricultural and Pastoral Societies in Ancient and Classical History (2001) (26)
The Limited Raj: Agrarian Relations in Colonial India, Saran District, 1793–1920. By Anand Yang (Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1990. xii + 271 pp. $37.50) (1991) (24)
The Burma Delta. (1974) (17)
Interpreting the Industrial Revolution (1991) (15)
Agrarian Revolution: Social Movements and Export Agriculture in the Underdeveloped World. By Jeffery M. Paige (New York: The Free Press, 1975. xiv + 435 pp. $15.95) (1977) (10)
“Moral Economy” or “Contest State”?: Elite Demands and the Origins of Peasant Protest in Southeast Asia (1980) (10)
A Field Matures: Technology, Science, and Western Colonialism (1997) (9)
Imperialist Rhetoric and Modern Historiography: The Case of Lower Burma before and after Conquest (1972) (9)
Social History and the Revolution in African and Asian Historiography (1985) (7)
Reconsidering the macro-narrative in global history: John Darwin’s After Tamerlane and the case for comparison (2009) (6)
Technology and European overseas enterprise : diffusion, adaption and adoption (1998) (6)
Essays on Twentieth-Century History (2010) (5)
State, Market and Peasant in Colonial South and Southeast Asia (1998) (5)
Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance. By James C. Scott (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985, xxii plus 389 pp. $35) (1987) (5)
Turbulent Passage: A Global History of the Twentieth Century (1993) (5)
On the Fringes of History: A Memoir (2007) (4)
Agrarian development and the plural society in lower Burma, 1852-1941 (1971) (4)
Scientific Standards and Colonial Education in British India and French Senegal (1991) (3)
Machines as the Measure of Men: Science, Technology, and Ideologies of Western Dominance. (1991) (3)
South Asian Resistance in Comparative Perspective (2018) (2)
High Imperialism and the New History (1993) (2)
Seeing Like a State (2000) (2)
Comparative History and the Challenge of the Grand Narrative (2012) (2)
Contested Hegemony (2019) (2)
Comparative History and the Colonial Encounter: the Great War and the Crisis of the British Empire (1990) (1)
Revisiting the Expansion of Europe: A Review Article (1997) (1)
Turbulent passage : a global history of the 20th century (2008) (1)
A Colonial War in a Postcolonial Era: The United States’ Occupation of Vietnam (2003) (1)
Colonization, Commercial Agriculture, and the Destruction of the Deltaic Rainforests of British Burma in the Late Nineteenth Century (2018) (1)
Age of Settlement and Colonisation (2012) (1)
Ambivalent Ally: American Military Intervention and the Endgame and Legacy of World War I (2014) (1)
The Village and State in Vietnam and Burma: An Open and Shut Case? (2018) (0)
Africa and Africans in the Age of the Atlantic Slave Trade: African Diaspora (1992) (0)
Market Demand Versus Imperial Control: Colonial Contradictions and the Origins of Agrarian Protest in South and Southeast Asia (2018) (0)
Aftermath of Defeat : The Enduring Costs of the Vietnam War (特集それぞれの戦後 : アメリカとベトナム) (2014) (0)
Peasant Movements and Millenarianism (2018) (0)
Bandits, Monks, and Pretender Kings: Patterns of Peasant Resistance and Protest in Colonial Burma, 1826–1941 (2018) (0)
1. “ENGINS” IN THE WILDERNESS (2006) (0)
The Virtues of Rigorous Comparison: Peter Stearns's Contributions to Global History (2017) (0)
Other Books Received (2006) (0)
From Footdragging to Flight: The Evasive History of Peasant Avoidance Protest in South and South-east Asia (2018) (0)
5. IMPOSING MODERNITY (2006) (0)
Religion and Witchcraft in Early American Society (1974) (0)
ITI volume 26 issue 3-4 Cover and Front matter (2002) (0)
Elites in South Asia. Edited by Edmund Leach and S. N. Mukherjee. Cambridge: University Press, 1970. Pp. vi, 256. $12.50 (1971) (0)
The Flawed "Tools of Empire": Clive Dewey, Steamboats on the Indus (2017) (0)
Colonialism in Comparative Perspective (2008) (0)
William Kelleher Storey. Science and Power in Colonial Mauritius. (Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora.) Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press. 1997. Pp. ix, 238 (1999) (0)
Leaders and Followers, Revolutions and Rebellions: Two Comparative Approaches@@@Anatomy of Rebellion.@@@Leaders of Revolution. (1982) (0)
Colonialism in Comparative Perspective (2008) (0)
Book Reviews (1999) (0)
David Arnold. Colonizing the Body: State Medicine and Epidemic Disease in Nineteenth-Century India. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 1993. Pp. xii, 354. Cloth $45.00, paper $18.00 (1994) (0)
Concepts of the Moral Economy and the Study of Commercialization in South Asia (2018) (0)
Does Technology Drive History? The Dilemma of Technological Determinism . Edited by Meritt Roe Smith and Leo Marx. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 1994. xv, 280 pp. $35 hardbound, $16.95 paperback. (1995) (0)
Jean Gelman Taylor, The Social World of Batavia: European and Eurasian in Dutch Asia. Madison, Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1983. $25.00 (1985) (0)
7. Continuity and Transformation: Colonial Rice Frontiers and Their Environmental Impact on the Great River Deltas of Mainland Southeast Asia (2019) (0)
4. FOUNDATIONS OF AN AMERICAN CENTURY (2006) (0)
EPILOGUE: THE PARADOX OF TECHNOLOGICAL SUPREMACY (2006) (0)
Warwick Anderson. Colonial Pathologies: American Tropical Medicine, Race, and Hygiene in the Philippines. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. 2006. Pp. ix, 355. Cloth $84.95, paper $23.95 (2007) (0)
3. ENGINEERS’ IMPERIALISM (2006) (0)
7. TECHNOWAR IN THE PERSIAN GULF (2006) (0)
6. MACHINES IN THE VIETNAM QUAGMIRE (2006) (0)
Stein Tønnesson. Vietnam 1946: How the War Began. Foreword by Philippe Devillers. (From Indochina to Vietnam: Revolution and War in a Global Perspective, number 3.) Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 2010. Pp. xxiv, 361. $39.95. (2011) (0)
Ethnic Pluralism and Conflict on the Frontiers of South Asian Migration (2018) (0)
World Civilizations AP Edition: "Chapter 16: The World Economy: Outline and Multiple Choice, True/False, and Short Answer Quizzes" (1995) (0)
A New System of Slavery: The Export of Indian Labour Overseas, 1830–1920 . By Hugh Tinker. London: Oxford University Press, 1974. Pp. xvi, 432 + 18 plates. £5.75. (1974) (0)
World Civilizations: AP Edition: ÒChapter 28: Descent into the Abyss: World War I and the Crisis of European Global Order QuizzesÓ (1995) (0)
Technological Transformations (2022) (0)
Vaclav Smil.Transforming the Twentieth Century: Technical Innovations and Their Consequences. x + 358 pp., illus., figs., bibl., indexes. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. $45 (cloth). (2008) (0)
2. MACHINES AND MANIFEST DESTINY (2006) (0)
The Dynamics of Global Dominance (Book) (2002) (0)
Altered States: Adapting Technologies for a Global Order in Upheaval (2007) (0)
Social Transformations: A General Theory of Historical Development. By Stephen K. Sanderson (Oxford: Blackwell, 1995. xii plus 452pp.) (1997) (0)
The Structure of the Indian Textile Industry in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (2017) (0)
Nature, the Exotic, and the Science of French Colonialism. By Michael A. Osborne. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994. xvi + 216 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. $35.00 (1997) (0)
Woman's Role in Economic Development. By Ester Boserup (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1970. 283 pp. with appendix tables and bibliography. $7.95) (1972) (0)
GLOBAL AND COMPARATIVE HISTORY (2019) (0)
The Annex of the Raj: The Anglo-Indian Interlude in Burmese History c. 1826–1941 (2018) (0)
Book Review:The Savage within: The Social History of British Anthropology, 1885-1945 Henrika Kuklick (1993) (0)
Maps and Illustrations (2018) (0)
Tactics versus Strategies in Peasant Protest Response (2018) (0)
Reviews of Books:The Dynamics of Global Dominance: European Overseas Empires, 1415-1980 David R. Abernethy (2002) (0)
Chapter 24: Industrialization and Imperialism: The Making of the European Global Order Quizzes (1995) (0)
Book Reviews : Jean Gelman Taylor, The Social World of Batavia: European and Eurasian in Dutch Asia. Madison, Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1983. $25.00 (1985) (0)
The Ryotwari in Lower Burma: The Establishment and Decline of a Peasant Proprietor System (2018) (0)
Epilogue: Modernization Theory and the Revival of the Technological Standard (2018) (0)
INTRODUCTION: A TRAIN FOR THE SHOGUN (2006) (0)

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